522 ARTICLE 43.

The word "shoddy" shall mean any material which has been spun into
yarn, knit or woven into fabric, and subsequently cut up, torn up, broken
up, or ground up.

The word "person, " as used herein, shall include persons, corporations,
co-partnerships and associations.

Words used in the singular number shall include the plural; and the
plural, the singular.

(B) No person shall employ or use in the making, remaking or reno-
vating of any article defined herein (a) any material known as shoddy or
any fabric or material of which shoddy is constructed; (b) any second-hand
material; (c) any new or second-hand feathers or feather-down, unless
such shoddy, second-hand material or new or second-hand feathers and
feather-down have been sterilized and disinfected by a reasonable process
approved by the Director of Health.

(C) Any person engaged in the making, remaking or renovating of any
article defined herein, in which second-hand material is used, or in the
making of any new or second-hand feather or down filled article, or any
article in which shoddy is used, or engaged in sterilizing and disinfecting
any material or article coming under the provisions of Section 64 shall
submit to the Director of Health for approval a reasonable and effective
process, together with duplicate plans of apparatus or auxiliary devices, for
the sterilization and disinfection of second-hand material, feathers and
feather-down and second-hand articles herein enumerated.

Upon the approval of such process for sterilization and disinfection,
a numbered permit for its use shall be issued to the applicant by the said
Director of Health. Such permit shall expire one year from date of ap-
proval and issue. Every person to whom a permit has been issued shall
keep such permit conspicuously posted in his office or place of business.
Refusal to display such permit in accordance with this Section 64 shall be
sufficient reason to revoke and forfeit the permit.

For all permits issued as required by the provisions of this Section 64
(not including, however, by the term "permits" the tags otherwise referred
to in said Section 64), there shall at times of issue thereof, be paid by the
applicant to the Director of Health a fee of fifty dollars ($50. 00).

Nothing herein shall prevent any person engaged in the making, remak-
ing, renovating or sale of any article herein described, which requires steril-
izing and disinfecting under the provisions hereof, from having such steril-
izing and disinfecting performed by any person to whom a permit for such
purposes has been issued, provided the number of the permit shall appear
in the statement on the tag attached to the article.

(D) All places where any article defined in Paragraph A of Section 64
is made, remade or renovated or where materials for the herein named
articles are prepared, or establishment where said articles are offered for
sale, or are in possession of any person with intent to sell, deliver or
consign them, or establishment where sterilizing and disinfecting is per-
formed shall be subject to inspection by the Director of Health or his duly